The Brookhaven leader., 1887-03-24
STATE GLEANINGS.

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The LANYARD near Hazlehurst is
shipping leather to Baltimore.
Bishop Galloway dedicated the
new Methodist church at Greenwood |
last Sabbath.
The girls of the State Female
College will soon issue q paper,
the College Echo.
Mr.. P.E Moore and Miss Mary
n. Wyatt, of Pike county, were mar
ried on the 10th inst.
Bob Lowry, Jr., the Governors
fighting son, has just graduated in
Medicine at Louisville.
Mayor Patterson and Marshal
Mullins, of Wesson, will continue in
office two years longer.
w. S. Howard & Co.. have
succeeded the firm OF Harris,
Dodds & Co., at Hazlehurst.
The Capital Light Guards and
the Vicksburg Southrons will attend
the National drill at Washington
in May.
The Jackson Compress Company
has accomplished the feat OF pack
ing 1O1 bales Of cotton in an ordin-
airy box car.
w. f. Price, ex- President of the
Board of Supervisors Of Copiah
county, has got into horse stealing
scrape and absconded for parts un
known.
Hon. Frank IIurd, of Ohio, has
accepted an invitation to deliver the
commencement address at the Uni
versiLy of Oxford, Miss, on the
goth of June.
Gen. Walthall has returned to bis
home in Grenada, where old and
young, rich and poor, black and
white, all united in extending to him
hearty and cordial welcome.
The Supreme Court has reversed
the decision in the Beasley case
from Copiah county. 1t was revers-
ed because of an erroneous in
struction given by the State ~ the
jury.
Miss Marion Buckley has rendered
her resignation as general book
keeper in the Auditors Office, to
take effect April LIST, and will be
succeeded by Mr.. Z. j. Smith, Of
A berdeen.
The Ladies' Park Association, OF
Hazlehurst, hold mite meetings To
raise funds to carry on their work.
when our Broukhaven ladies' get
regularly to work we hope they will
do likewise.
Among the inmates Of the Jack
son Lunatic Asylum now is a
Chlnamau from Edwards depot.
He is the finest Monaghan ever
sent 10 this institution, ana is said
to he badly of
Hosea Thompson, a dumb negro,
brutally murdered an inotfcn,ive
colored youth named Henry Trim,
aged Is years, six miles north o:
jackson last week. lie ambushed
Trim and shot him dead.
The Messrs. Spengler, proprictors
Of Cooper's Well, will construct
telegraph line from Raymond, Miss.
to the Wells, and it is stated will
have the same in operation by the
opening OF the hotel on May l.
At railroad meeting at Aber-
deem last week the ireful Gen.
Reuben Davis attempted to shoot
Capt. Lee, and instead accidentally
wounded Mr.. Z. w. Gibson, a
prominent merchant, who was
attempting to act as peacemaker.
A correspondent of the Vicksburg
Post says Jackson's first Saturday
night Of prohibition was notable for
the quietness prevailing, and the
few people on the streets. In fact
the city was said BY one man to be
like a cemetery--a place Of departed
spirits.
An infant minus the right arm
and half of the right leg, and with
the foot of the left leg turned back
wards, was recently born to a
deaf and dumb couple at Wesson.
At the right shoulder where the arm
should come out, there is said to be
a short protuberance like crooked
finger, which is kept in constant
motion.
Miss Nora Thompson, of Tupelo,
a former student of the Industrial
College, committed suicide recently
by shooting herself in the head. II
is said there was u rtcipr"ra! feeling
of love between her and young
man in Tupelo, which was frOwned
upon by an irate father who kept
the young lady locked up in her
room, where she took her life.
The Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION of Mississippi will hold a
State Convention and Training
School for Christian Workers at
Columbus, beginning Friday night,
March 25Lh, and closing Thursday
o., y,,os,